Episode 8: The Virus-Eye View

We know, more or less, what the new coronavirus looks like … but what do we look like to it?

In today’s episode, we imagine a little movie filmed from the point of view of the virus itself. We follow it as it enters the body, and get the blow-by-blow as it goes about its dastardly business of locking on to a cell, invading it, taking over its machinery and turning it into a virus factory.

And we hear about an especially diabolical trick the virus pulls on its way out of a cell, which still gives me the creeps.

Finally, we consider how insights into how this virus behaves on a molecular level could help us outsmart and, eventually, defeat it.